Janine Cohen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Janine Cohen |Mary Fallon |Dylan Welch |Maryanne Taouk

Pod 12 at Silverwater remand centre is bigger than the other pods. Prisoners say this makes it perfect for brawls. It's won the nickname the "octagon". Adam Watt strides into the jail courtyard and immediately feels out of place, slumping against a chain link fence. Like many of the other detainees, he claims he's innocent. When he was arrested, a few weeks earlier, he remembers thinking how embarrassed the police would be when they find out how wrong they've got it.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Janine Cohen

Disgraced former NSW Crime Commission investigator Mark Standen has broken his silence, as new evidence suggests he was involved in far more criminal activity than previously known. A document obtained by the ABC reveals that after Standen's arrest, the Australian Federal Police suspected he had been involved in multiple drug imports.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Janine Cohen |Mary Fallon |Dylan Welch

Infamous crime fighter Mark Standen's corruption was far deeper and more sinister than the public ever knew. Rather than arresting drug traffickers, Standen was working with them. The NSW Crime Commission has always maintained that its former assistant director committed just one drug import. A Four Corners investigation, spanning more than a decade, has challenged this narrative.

Oct 8, 2023 | abc.net.au | Janine Cohen |Leisa Scott

To drive around Australia in 40 days in a small hatchback is an ambitious plan. To do it when your body is failing, each day revealing another change, a new crushing limitation, is close to heroic. But nothing was going to stop Fiona MacDonald from giving it a go. Not even her sister, Jacki MacDonald's protestations. "I said, 'No, no, no, no, no, you can't do it," recalls Jacki, the former co-host with Daryl Somers in the long-running variety program, Hey Hey It's Saturday. "It's too far.

Mar 5, 2023 | abc.net.au | Janine Cohen